62 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
ers, kept in one house and yard, and properly kept and 
cared for with such help as this, to secure early broiling 
chickens, as these bring a high price. A brood of eight 
chicks, which is a fair average for each hen, sold at 
seventy-five cents each, will make six dollars alone, and 
some of the cockerels in the case mentioned sold in the 
fall for eighteen cents a pound, and weighed nine 
pounds each, making one dollar and sixty-two cents 
each. 
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BROODERS FOR EARLY CHICKENS. 
The greatest profit in poultry-keeping is from the 
early chickens. By good feeding and management 
some of the hens may be brooding in January, and all 
the chicks may be saved by the use of artificial brooders. 
Incubators are used by experts with success, but farmers 
and ordinary poultry-keepers are rarely successful with 
these machines. Brooders, however, may be used by any 
person, even a boy or girl, who will simply see that the 
heat is not excessive, and when the chicks open their 
mouths, give them fresh air. Eighty degrees is quite 
enough warmth for newly hatched chicks, which are 
taken from the nest as they come out, and are placed in 
the brooder until all the brood is out, when they may be 
removed to a warm, glazed coop, with the hen. Young 
chicks have been thus narsed until they were strong, 
which ran about in the snow in February with great 
pleasure and comfort, and not one was lost out of a lot 
of ninety, which were all hatched in January. All that 
is required is to have a warm part of the buildings or an 
attic room for the setting hens, and glazed coops set in 
a sunny piace out of doors for the chicks when they 
come from the brooder. The brooder (fig. 43) is a box 
cighveen incbes square or thereabouts, one end opening 
